Dish, Ming dynasty, Hongzhi period (1488-1505). Porcelain with dragon design incised and painted in green enamel (Jingdezhen). Diameter: 17.8cm. Museum no C.26-1953. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Dish of porcelain, saucer-shaped, with rounded sides and turned out lip, and tapering footring. Inside in the centre is incised a five-clawed scaly dragon among cloud scrolls, painted in green enamel and enclosed in a ring with another ring below the lip. The underside similarly shows two running dragons on a ground of delicately incised waves and rocks.